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Quick Take: Google AMP And The Ongoing Issue Of Inflated Metrics

Zach Fuller

10 Mar 2017

Media and Marketing

Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages has allegedly been inflating the traffic metrics of its publishing clients. The service was launched last year in a bid to compete with Facebook’s Instant Articles,...

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MIDiA Exclusive: 7digital Acquires Leading Competitor 24-7

Mark Mulligan

10 Mar 2017

UK music services provider 7digital today announced they are currently considering the acquisition of longstanding competitor 24-7 from German retail giant MediaMarktSaturn (MMS). 24-7 is one of the longest...

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Facebook’s ‘Disputed News’ Shows Intent But Does Not Solve The Fake News Problem

Karol Severin

7 Mar 2017

Last week Facebook started to roll out a feature which allows users to flag content as ‘disputed’, in a bid to mitigate the circulation of fake news on the site. Stories flagged by users will then...

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BT Pays A Premium For Video Scarcity

Tim Mulligan

6 Mar 2017

Champions League

Today BT announced the extension of their exclusive UK broadcasting rights deal with UEFA for all Champions League and Europa League matches until the end of the 2020-2021 season. This has cost the UK...

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Snapchat Imitations Are a Red Herring - Tencent Is Who Facebook Truly Want to Emulate

Zach Fuller

2 Mar 2017

Snapchat has gone public, yet investors are still cagey on the company's IPO in response to Facebook’s regular copying of the ephemeral image-based app. Such is the extent of this that in response to...

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YouTube Flicks The On Switch With YouTube TV

Tim Mulligan

2 Mar 2017

Tuesday, February 28th could be looked back on as the day when everything changed for the pay TV industry in the US. This was the day when one of the tech majors decided to announce to the world that it...

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Twitch Will Start Selling Games And Offer A Cut To Streamers

Karol Severin

1 Mar 2017

content monetisation

Twitch, the game video streaming platform owned by Amazon, announced yesterday that it will start selling games via streamers’ channels. This alone is news-worthy, but what makes the announcement a potential...

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Global Recorded Music Revenues Grew By $1.1 Billion In 2016

Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2017

Media and Marketing

Following on from the global market share numbers we released on Sunday , here are our findings regarding the growth of the overall market. Throughout 2016 as the major label earnings were coming in there...

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Quick Take: Soundcloud Go Take 2

Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2017

Music Subscriptions

Soundcloud Go, Soundcloud’s initial foray into the world of premium subscriptions was never the best of fits for the Berlin based streaming upstart. Soundcloud has achieved something few others have...

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Amazon & Netflix Go To The Oscars

Tim Mulligan

27 Feb 2017

Yesterday’s 89th Academy Awards made history. For the first time, streaming services were critically recognized by the Academy Of Motion Pictures and Sciences with Netflix and Amazon, the two largest...

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Global Recorded Market Music Market Shares 2016

Mark Mulligan

26 Feb 2017

MIDiA and Music Business Worldwide have been tracking record label and publisher financial releases throughout 2016. In addition MIDIA has conducted market sizing work on the publishing sector and research...

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Shine Pivots From Advertising’s ‘Nuclear Threat’ To Advertising’s Rainbow

Karol Severin

24 Feb 2017

ad verification

I have written about the journey of the network-level adblocker Shine numerous times. The company has come into the public eye due to its disruptive effort of offering adblocking at the network level to...

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Quick Take: Tilt’s Acquisition By Airbnb Is A Major Coup For Social Commerce

Zach Fuller

23 Feb 2017

As ad-supported online content becomes the arena for the rise of fake news (and privately turns into a duopoly market between Facebook and Google), social commerce is shaping up to be one of the next big...

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Awesomeness TV And The Premium Online Video Content Challenge

Tim Mulligan

21 Feb 2017

Despite the hype and the overall direction of travel, creating a premium video offering for mobile audiences remains a huge challenge. Last week Awesomeness TV and Verizon (who bought a 24.5% stake in...

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Differentiating Full-Stack Media and Tech Ecosystems

Zach Fuller

20 Feb 2017

full stack media

Two key developments in digital media that MIDiA Research has addressed over the past year are the emergence of both full-stack media and the tech ecosystem. These shifts in the digital life have recently...

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Quick Take: WeChat Introduces Paid Content For Public Accounts

Karol Severin

20 Feb 2017

Mobile messaging

It’s no secret that Asian messaging platforms have been leading much of the global innovation efforts, regarding the monetization of mobile messaging. Last week it emerged that WeChat is trialling Paid...

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Why Sling TV’s Move Into Cloud DVR Takes SVOD One Step Closer To Supplanting Non-streaming Pay TV

Tim Mulligan

17 Feb 2017

Sling TV’s recently announced that it would be expanding its cloud DVR trial to its subscriber base who access the service through Amazon Fire TV and Android devices. This will be closely followed by...

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The Significance behind The Amazon Prime Video Membership Numbers

Tim Mulligan

16 Feb 2017

Amazon Prime Video

One of the challenges of following the disruption wrought by Amazon in the TV and film business is assessing the size of its Prime membership. Currently a subscription to prime membership includes a subscription...

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Four Companies That Could Buy Spotify

Mark Mulligan

15 Feb 2017

21st Century Fox

For much of 2016 it looked nailed on that Spotify would IPO in 2017 and that the recorded music industry would move onto its next chapter, for better or for worse. The terms of Spotify’s $1 billion debt...

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Sarnoff’s Law and the Media Valuation Shift

Zach Fuller

10 Feb 2017

The story of David Sarnoff is the archetypal American Dream. A Belarusian child immigrant arriving in New York City at the turn of the 20th century, the ambitious Sarnoff would demonstrate an early instinct...

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